The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1887-06-29
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.
Items Of Interest Gathered from Various
Quarters.

The National Bank of Cincinnati has
suspended business.
Defalcation has been discovered IN the
Chicago water department. l.. G. Pope.
the collector, is short s., 900 or $4,000.
Mr.. Parnell does rot improve in health.
and It is now said that he is suffering from
cancer of the stomach.
Maxwell the murderer os Charles \.
Preller, will tread the murderer usual way
70 glory on the 18th August.
Adiutant General Drum. who has raised
such Robbery about the tlag, was q Blaine
man in 1884.
The sponge catch in Florida thus far is a
failure, thevesSels not having made enough
to pay their provision bills.
The second Chamber of the Diet of Hesse
has passed the ecclesiastical bill, setting
the conflict between Hesse and the Vatican.
Colonel Lamont has gone to New York
for few days on visit which mystltlcs
the politicians at both ends OF his journey.
Asia Minor is threatened with famine
and the Sultan is considering how to rem
edy the trouble.
The barge Walters was sunk in Lake
Erie on Monday evening. She was struck
by squall. Eight lives We're lost.
H. Sloan & Sons. cotton brokers of Phil
adelphia, who have suspended payment,
expect to make 4 statement to their credit
ors in few days.
Benz. G. Arnold and Francis B. Arnold
composing the firm of Arnold & Co., deal
ers in coffee, Wall street, have assigned to
Welcome S. Jarvis.
Henry Doclitch, q German tutcher, who
murdered Frank Meidel, was captured at
Elgin, H., Monday, and soon a .rwa:ds
committed suicide.
BY an explosion Of fire damp Monday,
in new railway tunnel in the Department
of Hautes Alps, II Italian laborers were
killed and 35 injured.
J. W. Longley, Attorney General of No
va Scotia, is an ardent advocate Of a COM
mercial union Of the Dominion and the
United States.
Ex-United States Treasurer Jordan has
been presented with a handsome silver
punch bowl by The employees Of the Treas
ury Department.
Mayor Hewitt is charged with having
presidential bee in his bonnet. If he would
make as good president as he has mayor
the bee should be encouraged.
Sarah Bernhard is said to have had suf-
hcient faith in the future of Chicago to in
vest S1S,500 in real estate in that city
during her recent engagement there.
A Washington milliner has successfully
introduced new style Of summer hat,
which she has named Dorothy Whitney in
honor of the naval Secretarys baby girl.
Congressman Tom Reed, of Maine, has
gone to Alaska to spend the summer. Maine
has no charms for Reed when his boss,
Blaine, is not at home.
Republican newspapers are gineful over
the honors paid to Mr.. Blaine in London.
Compared to Buffalo Bill, Mr.. Blaine is q
small potato in the eye of the British nation.
The New York Commercial Advertiser
advises the members of the fftieth congress
to study public questions before they assem-
bic in Washington next December.
During a thunder storm in Sumter coun
ty OF Monday, negro was killed by light
ming Two mules were killed at the same
time and place.
W. W. Corcoran has so far recovered
from his recent attack Of paralysis that he
has been taken 10 Deer Park, Nd, to spend
the heated term.
Blackwood, the Georgia forger, was sen
fenced to nine years at hard labor in the
penitentiary. He had pleaded guilty to
three indictments for forgery.
Broker kershaw, who engineered one end
of the corner in wheat, has gone TO the wall
for certain, 7. B. Weare having been ap
pointed receiver under bond.
Port Lovett, who attempted TO outrage a
lady at Villa Rica, Ga, was taken from
Jail Wednesday night by a party Of nen
and has not been heard Of since.
a report is current that NJ. Staulotr, one
of the Regents, and NJ Zivakof, President
of the Sobranje, Bulgaria, have been seized
by conspirators
The Chicago express over the Baltimore
and Ohio railroad was wrecked near Oak
land, Md, on Wednesday morning. One
tramp was killed, and six other persons
were wounded.
a heavy storm visited Lynchbug. Va,
on Tuesday night, blowing down shade
trees and fencing, and doing other damage.
The damage in the country is thought to
be heavy.
The anti-Beecher faction in Plymouth
Church pronounce the rumor that Mrs.
Stoves son is to succeed Mr.. Beecher "a
delightful little bit of rot, whatever that
may be.
The Queens jubilee is pronounced by
the English press to have been grand sue
cess. Among the presents she received
was purse of e15, coo, subscribed by three
million women.
John Suglard, on trial for the murder
of Helen A. Burst, whose body was found
in the Connecticut river Sunday, committed
suicide by hanging in his cell at Brattle
boro, VT, Thursday afternoon.
DR.. Hamilton denies the statements that
the government officials in the fever dis
tricts have deserted their posts, and says
that none of them are absent except the
postmaster and naval paymastcr, who were
ordered away.
Mr.. Lewis Morris, the assistant poet lau-
reate for the jubilee occasion, is the author
of the Epic of Hades He owes his ele-
walton to the partiality of the Prince OF
Wales.
The Earl of Aberdeen addressed the
Young Mems Christian Association of San
Francisco during his visit to that city. His
lordship is described as a tall slender man,
with full dark beard and moustache.
While Johh S. Wise is making his fourth
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